He sells a running shoe. A shoe folks. Now he thinks he has the ability to shape the worlds future because of all the money he made exploiting the producers of the shoes and gouging the customers of the shoe. What a fucking stretch. What is with these "too much money" guys?
"a guy who exploits vulnerable workers in 3rd world countries to sell boujee sports wear to Americans makes a truly outrageous donation to ensure he can further inflict harm on the world without having to pay his fair share."
Fixed the headline
They have severe OCD Hoarding Disorder, and they have a serious compulsion to hoard money, even when they have far more than they or their descendents can ever spend.
If this was someone hoarding anything else at that level, cats, rusty cars, newspapers, junk, etc., the government would step in, remove their treasure, and get that person the mental help they require. We should do the same with Financial Hoarders - detain them and get them the mental health care they require, and remove their hoard that is making life difficult for their neighbors. If they were hoarding cats, we'd put them up for adoption, so their financial hoard should be redistributed to the citizens.
Wow.
What an utter piece of human garbage who's doing what he can at the end of his privileged life to harm others.
In a shocking turn of events, a business executive is scum.
Got it. Brand is dead to me.
Been dead for decades with their quality and child labor abuse.
Nikes are bar none the worst shoes people try to have me repair. They are made from shitty criminally overpriced plastic and foam that decomposes and falls apart in the box let alone after someone wears them
What shoes do you recommend? Looking to get a new pair soon.
From my point of view athletic shoes aren't really a thing that can be effectively repaired because even the nice ones use plastics that aren't easy to work with after they've been worn. I can usually do something but its sentiment that keeps them going not quality. But really the lesson I try to teach people is to not give a fuck about the name on the shoe. It vastly more important to know how a shoe is supposed to fit on your foot and that it feels comfortable long term.
Edit: I will add a few names to avoid pretty much entirely though. Post-1988 Cole Haan (owned by Nike), Louis Vuitton and Ecco
To elaborate on the "go for the fit, not the name", there's a common belief that shoes need some time to break in before they feel comfortable. This is only true if you get shoes that don't really fit your foot. There's more to feet variations than just the length. I learned that the first time I got lucky and one of the few shoes I was trying on in my mad dash to get shoes and go do something else asap fit my foot properly. It immediately made me realize that I need patience when getting shoes and to never buy a shoe that doesn't feel great right away.
If you're going for a designer shoe, I bet the odds of it perfectly fitting your foot are low, unless maybe you have the same foot type as Michael Jordan or whichever athlete's name they are putting on the shoe, assuming that athlete's foot was even part of the design at all. For all we know, they rip those shoes off as soon as the cameras aren't watching because it was purely a marketing thing.
I have a pair of redwings I've had repaired 3x over the last 14 years. They're expensive, but worth adding to the list.
No one is cross shopping Nike sneakers and red wing boots. That's apples to oranges.
Lemmy try not to give incredibly out of touch fashion advice challenge: impossible
About once every few weeks, I'll go visit my local blacksmith and he'll nail a new pair of pair of shoes right on to my giant toenail. Or maybe he repairs the old ones. I'm not too sure, he doesn't really tell me much. He just stands in places that make it really hard to kick him, and I only really wanted to do that the first time because I thought he was trying to steal my feet.
I don't repair shoes, but I work in a place that sells them and I know exactly what you mean. They're shit. Adidas are the better of the big 2 brands.
Nikes - made for children by children.
Psssttt....Nike replicas are so good now that they sometimes use medical scanning devices to try to tell them apart. They look identical down to the correct boxes, security tags, etc...
The people i know who wear nike, only wear nike. It's like a weird cult. I met two women this year who said they would NEVER wear anything else.
A cult...for Nike? Sounds classical
That joke is hella nice
This is exactly why we shouldn't have billionaires. It's literally impossible to spend a billion dollars on things for yourself, so what's left but to spend it on manipulating other people.
They could spend it on bettering the world, but that would never occur to them.
I resolved never to buy or wear Nike back in the late 90s. The companies practices are abominable but I also hated the culture of conspicuous consumption and the way people believed it gave them license to shit on others for not turning themselves into a walking ad. I grew up poor, so I know the feeling of being made to feel less-than because I got Pro Wings on instead of Jordans.

Of course a sweat-shop owner is a republican.
What a piece of shit
Oh look, yet another example of why we should tax wealth and not work.
I can't boycott no harder, we haven't purchased a name brand in weeks!
Republican are the ones that burned Nikes for sponsoring Colin Kaepernick....

Imagine how many copies this sold
Like, four?
They’re not well known for buying books.
Reading them, no. But fuckers love buying them and handing them out. Nothing a conservative uncle loves more than sliding a copy of Atlas Shrugged across the table and saying "Read this if you want to learn about Real Communism, kid".
Why are old republicans so fucking weird looking.
While Knight is generally reluctant to give interviews, he spoke with the New York Times in October 2022 regarding his support for Republican candidates. He argued Oregon's government had drifted too far to the left and described himself as "more conservative than Nike," responding to criticism of him backing an anti-abortion candidate which apparently contrasted with the company's image of supporting progressive social justice causes.[109] Nike itself donated $75,000 to Drazan and Johnson's Democratic opponent, Tina Kotek, the eventual winner of the election. - WIKIPEDIA
Not just the old ones, many of them in the administration look super strange with even weirder views.
One looks like they fought a lawnmower at a barbershop and lost, another looks like a fanfic witch from The Matrix, several of them look like cast members from The Witch (movie), others have...odd features that make them look like WW2 villains or slightly methed out. And all of them are batshit insane.
You can't even find people like that in a big city.
After the recent election? You can kiss that fucking money goodbye. Have fun losing big.
Fuck him. I have not and never will support his brand.
Wow fuck that guy
Evil really makes you look like a corroded ballsack
Bruh, I remember a few years ago (before covid) in my deep blue city public school, kids would make fun of you if your wear shoes that aren't nikes, especially like no name brand shoes or even sketchers.
Like wtf. Its highschool, so immature...
Some kids even got "designer" shoes or whatever for $500-$1000, like... the fuck?!?
Its shoes... 🤦♂️
Ugh, kids these days.
Meh. This is Oregon. That kind of money may get 1 or 2 more republicans in the legislature. Probably moderate republicans even. But it isn't going to change much for the state. I don’t happen to buy anything Nike anyway. But overall, we got bigger fish to fry right now.
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